{"id":549,"date":"2008-08-23T08:59:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-23T16:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=549"},"modified":"2009-04-17T08:15:13","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T16:15:13","slug":"revising-the-sex-sphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/23\/revising-the-sex-sphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Revising &#8220;The Sex Sphere&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/thesexsphere_cover_final.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>So now I\u2019m rereading the scanned manuscript for my 1981 novel of hyperdimensional nuclear terrorism, <em>The Sex Sphere <\/em>, getting it ready for a planned  <a target=\"blank\" href=\" http:\/\/www.ereads.com\/\">E-Reads <\/a>edition in electronic book and the print-on-demand formats this fall.  As with <em>Spacetime Donuts<\/em>, also coming out from E-reads this fall, I did a cover painting for it, and my graphic-designer daughter <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grfix.com\">Georgia Rucker <\/a>turned it into a cover.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/coopmarkt.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I think <em>The Sex Sphere <\/em> is really one of my better books, even though it wasn\u2019t that widely read when it came out.  I\u2019m not finding all that many things that need correcting.  I had a nice, loose style then, and a lot of freedom; if you were writing paperback SF originals for Ace Books in the early 80s, it didn\u2019t seem like there was much of a filter.  Like clear channel border radio.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/collaborators4.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been painting a little again.  I touched up my <em>Collaborators <\/em>picture of two authors (possibly me and Bruce Sterling) working on a story together.  I relate to the apoplectic scribe on the left.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/alienpicnic1.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m working on a new one called <em>Alien Picnic<\/em>.  It\u2019s a view across Silicon Valley that I\u2019ve painted before, but this time I thought it would be cute to have a couple of giant eyeballs on an outing.  I still want to add some houses on the hillsides, put some food on the picnic cloth, and layer on more texture.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/augemilio.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I met my friend Emilio at the coffee shop the other day.  He\u2019s a programmer who gets lots of consulting gigs.  He\u2019s currently using C# for some kind of threaded voice-recognition app.  We were talking about how programming takes a very high capacity for handling pain.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/harp8shirt.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>And, as usual, I\u2019m hanging around in my back yard taking pictures of little things like this red fleece shirt drying.  This sight made me think of William Carlos Williams&#8217; 1923 poem \u201cThe Red Wheelbarrow\u201d\u009d:<\/p>\n<p>so much depends<br \/>\nupon<\/p>\n<p>a red wheel<br \/>\nbarrow<\/p>\n<p>glazed with rain<br \/>\nwater<\/p>\n<p>beside the white<br \/>\nchickens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So now I\u2019m rereading the scanned manuscript for my 1981 novel of hyperdimensional nuclear terrorism, The Sex Sphere , getting it ready for a planned E-Reads edition in electronic book and the print-on-demand formats this fall. 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